Hi from Kyoto’s warmness. No adventurous weekend travels this week, since it made us both ill. I sniffled about college pathetically all week, but did manage to push myself into going to see the Tenniscoats in Urban Guild, who started really well, then invited everyone they knew onstage to join them, so that by the […]

We’re back from Shirahama and all slightly sick. This probably has something to do with the panda-related excitement on Sunday. It took ages to get there on Saturday. Bus to Omiya, train to Osaka, fortification with chocolate/banana croissants, 4 hour bus trip to Shirahama. We had just enough time to check in to our Minshuku […]

The highlight of the week so far was on Monday when me, Iris and her boyfriend Ossi went on a boat trip down the treelined valleys of Kameoka to the picturesque town of Arashiyama. I had just finished my Japanese class and had planned to stay at home to prepare my class for Tuesdays English […]

Hola. Last week wasn’t the most exciting one we’ve had here. I played with Rune in Osaka on Sunday in a very fancy looking concrete basement venue called Nu Things. The other bands were mostly of the wobbly noisy samplery variety. There were tons of them so it wore a bit thin after a while. […]

There was a cartoon strip in the Peanuts book I had years ago when Sally correctly predicted that if Linus were to ask their parents: “How come there’s a Mother’s Day and a Father’s Day but there isn’t a Children’s Day?”, they would respond “Why, every day is Children’s Day.” I tested this on my […]